Posts Tagged ‘Viceroy SRO’
Before and After at Harvest Commons Apartments
Viceroy SRO has been Harvest Commons Apartments for a few years now, but it was a delight to see these photos side-by-side.
Read MoreHarvest Commons Apartments Offer More Than Just a Room of One’s Own
Check out the latest issue of AIArchitect for a feature story on Harvest Commons Apartments. The renovated SRO affordable housing project gives recently homeless residents access to supportive services and urban agriculture. The article includes an interview with new resident Verlena Simms: “To me [Harvest Commons is] really different because we have the case manager…
Read MoreHarvest Commons Apartments Combines ‘Good Design with Technological Prowess’
Have you picked up the latest issue of Chicago Architect? The feature article, “Get Smart,” champions Harvest Commons Apartments as a “Smartly Rehabbed Affordable Housing” project, which combines physical, digital, and performance-based infrastructures to enhance efficiency: “The restorative touches mingle with smart technology, such as a building-wide intranet that will connect to a bank of…
Read MoreAffordable Housing Finance Selects Harvest Commons Apartments for 2013 Readers’ Choice Awards
Harvest Commons Apartments has been named one of the nation’s top developments of 2012 and 2013 by Affordable Housing Finance. Thirty-four finalists were selected for the ninth annual Readers’ Choice Awards according to AHF’s assessment of several key characteristics, including adding to the affordable housing stock, neighborhood revitalization, innovative financing, and community support. Harvest Commons…
Read MoreFirst Planting at Harvest Commons’ Urban Farm
Last Friday marked the first planting of the urban farm at Harvest Commons Apartments. Volunteers from Heartland Alliance and Landon Bone Baker joined residents and their families to plant rows of seedling tomatoes and peppers, along with turnip, squash, beet, radish, mustard greens, kale, amaranth, pole beans, and other seeds. Sprouted potatoes will be planted…
Read MoreLunch Talks@CAF Features Harvest Commons Apartments
LBBA’s Jeff Bone will present Harvest Commons Apartments tomorrow during the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s weekly lunchtime program, Lunch Talks@CAF. “Preservation and Adaptive Reuse of the Viceroy Hotel” is the final feature under CAF’s month-long theme: “Preserving the Past/Making it New.” Join Jeff and Hume An, Director of Real Estate Development at Heartland Housing, as they…
Read MoreMayor Emanuel Celebrates Ribbon Cutting of Harvest Commons Apartments as Part of Eisenhower Corridor ‘Neighborhoods Now’ Developments
Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined Near West Side community leaders and site developers today for the formal re-opening of the $22.3 million Harvest Commons Apartments, a designated City landmark that was converted into 89 low-income studios with on-site social services. Harvest Commons Apartments, formerly known as the Viceroy Hotel, was redeveloped during the last year by…
Read MoreChicken Coop Research for the Viceroy SRO
LBBA is working with Heartland Housing to develop a chicken coop scheme for the garden at the Viceroy SRO. As part of the project’s urban agriculture and resident engagement program, Heartland would like to raise 8-20 hens on site for egg production and farm-to-table training. We met with Jennifer Murtoff, urban chicken consultant, to explore…
Read MoreArchi-treasures Holds Workshops at the Viceroy SRO Project
Archi-treasures is working on a new art project at the Viceroy SRO Project. The arts-based community organization led two participatory workshops this month to develop concepts for an outdoor sculpture to be placed at the corner of Ogden Avenue and Warren Avenue. LBBA’s Jeff Bone and Jack Schroeder kicked-off the first workshop on December 1…
Read Moreprogress on the viceroy sro project
Last Friday, Landon Bone Baker Architects stopped in at the construction site for the Viceroy SRO Project at 1519 W. Warren Blvd. The visit gave everyone in the office a chance to see the progress on the project and get a closer look at this historic building as it undergoes an intensive gut rehab. …
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